Investigators with the Indian River County Sheriff's Office exhumed the body of an unidentified woman found shot the death in 1982.Crews at the Winter Beach Cemetery began digging up the vault that contained the coffin just before 10 a.m., Thursday.Investigators are are working with forensic researchers from the University of Florida.Lt. Eric Flowers said they are trying to do gather additional information to help identify the unidentified woman and find the person who killed her.Download app: iOS | AndroidCrews spent a little over an hour to remove the body. Once they were done it was loaded into a University of Florida vehicle and was transported to a Gainesville lab where researchers will examine the body."They will do a full 3D scan of the skull, they will submit that to a forensic artist and they will work to create a profile of this person that will hopefully stir somebody's memory, jog somebody's memory. We know that this woman is somebody's family member that she belongs to a family somewhere and we want to put closure to this case," said Flowers.Flowers said what detectives do know about the case is the victim was found inside a ditch off of state road 60 about six miles west of I-95 in 1982.She was fatally shot.Detectives have a wedding ring and they said there was scarring on her stomach which may indicate she had given birth.Investigators hope to use new technology for facial reconstruction."What they will do with these remains is give us a full forensic demographic profile, height, weight and everything that we can imagine as well as some sort of ethnic history," said Flowers. Essentially, everything that wasn't available in 1982."Investigators said they have no idea how long the process will take.They said it depends on the condition of the body.

VERO BEACH, Fla. —

Investigators with the Indian River County Sheriff's Office exhumed the body of an unidentified woman found shot the death in 1982.

Crews at the Winter Beach Cemetery began digging up the vault that contained the coffin just before 10 a.m., Thursday.

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Investigators are are working with forensic researchers from the University of Florida.

Lt. Eric Flowers said they are trying to do gather additional information to help identify the unidentified woman and find the person who killed her.

Crews spent a little over an hour to remove the body. Once they were done it was loaded into a University of Florida vehicle and was transported to a Gainesville lab where researchers will examine the body.

"They will do a full 3D scan of the skull, they will submit that to a forensic artist and they will work to create a profile of this person that will hopefully stir somebody's memory, jog somebody's memory. We know that this woman is somebody's family member that she belongs to a family somewhere and we want to put closure to this case," said Flowers.

Flowers said what detectives do know about the case is the victim was found inside a ditch off of state road 60 about six miles west of I-95 in 1982.

She was fatally shot.

Detectives have a wedding ring and they said there was scarring on her stomach which may indicate she had given birth.

Investigators hope to use new technology for facial reconstruction.

"What they will do with these remains is give us a full forensic demographic profile, height, weight and everything that we can imagine as well as some sort of ethnic history," said Flowers. Essentially, everything that wasn't available in 1982."